The Home Machinist!

Jtrains advice on getting a drawbar type for milling is correct. Morse taper collets for mills that also use a drawbar are scarce and expensive. Non-drawbar morse collets tend to work out of the spindle if used for milling. The R-8 style collet is very common and has a good selection of sizes. Some ...

I have experimented with the Lindsey designs. I have made changes and some of the internal parts and the overall designs to see what happens. bigger hammers go slower, less pieces to the mechanism are easier to change out and have spares. I dont have any working examples anymore, i keep messing with...

There is a company in Melrose park Il that does basically that. They make keyed shafting in 20 foot lengths. Their equipment is all old cincinati horizontal mills with the tables locked. They have special fixtures clamped to the tables and a bar pulling mechanism on the outfeed end. The puller is ma...

This is a chart I coppied off the wall of the oil room at Ingersoll Milling machine co about 12 years ago.
http://www.metalwebnews.com/howto/chart/lube.htm
another chart to maybe help with viscosity things.
http://www.metalwebnews.com/howto/chart/viscosity.pdf

I think that is a small horizontal production mill. If so, they are not real amenable to general machining.
Parts may be available from this place in Elida, ohio. These are great guys to work with
http://partsnparts.com/

Green wheels are for carbide. I use one to shape my brazed tools, then use a diamond to put a nice clean edge on it. Grinding steel will wreck a green wheel in no time. White alox is good for tool steel bits. 80 grit 'h' is pretty fine. I won't do well to rough a cutter tool but does give a good edge.

When I need to mill something real close to the table or vice jaws, I clamp everything as normal then extend the quill so the cutting tool lightly touches a piece of notebook paper on the surface i dont want to mill. two layers (.006) is a little safer. Any little ridge left from milling is small en...

Depends on what kind of damage to the bearing surfaces but I would try Locktite 660 "quickmetal" on the shaft with the pulleys that you have. That shaft is about 600$ I think. Are the clutch dogs on the bottom still sharp?

The filler metal was whatever type of wire happens to be in his welder. Welding iron with steel rod causes a hard 'white iron' area around the weld from the rapid uncontrolled cooling of the welded area, I think. It could be in part due to the graphite (carbon) in the iron being disolved into the we...

I was taught that the feed per revolution should be approximatly 1/3 the radius of the insert or cutter for the best finish. .030 radius= .010 feed per rev. etc. This sometimes works, theres lots more issues going on as well. The larger the radius, the more horse power is needed. Everyones suggestio...

cb is still cb. 19 is the truckers and road band. hook an old one up to a linear and a big tall antenna. no telling who may park out front. I have a few old ef johnsons. The royce only worked on half the channels.It would be a good night for skipping and chatting with strangers in s america.

I recently tried to get several old motorola P100 vhf hand helds reprogrammed to use the MURS frequencies. I was first told the software is no longer available, then that the narrow band regs make these radios unuseable. Two vhf frequencies will remain wide band in the MURS range 154. *** whatever. ...